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curl-6 on 22 May 2019
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Mr Puggsly said:
curl-6 said:

Hellblade on Switch does suffer that characteristic unevenness of being cut down from stronger hardware but at its best it looked better than anything else on the platform so far in my opinion.

As for Yoshi, it may not be the highest res game but to me it still looks beautiful thanks to its charming art direction and fantastic materials.

I actually feel Doom and Wolfenstein II are more impressive on Switch than Hellblade. They put more enemies on the screen, large environments, textures seem sharper, NPCs, etc.

I think there is balance where a game can maintain a charming presentation with a higher resolution. Maybe the new Yoshi game could have found that with UE3 as some developers have this gen. As I mentioned before some UE3 games look comparable to modern games with better performance and/or resolutions. There are plenty of Nintendo games that look great, hit 60 fps, but don't compromise on resolution that much.

Doom and Wolfenstein II are definitely impressive, but Doom has a less stable framerate than Hellblade and Wolfenstein blurrier image quality.

Compared to other Nintendo games the materials in Yoshi are on another level, though clearly this does not come cheap. I'm fine with the end result honestly; I certainly wouldn't want every Switch game to take this route, but in this instance I think the tradeoff is worth it.